Dynasty towers rose amid bustling streets.
As True Person Wangsheng stepped inside, he suddenly shuddered. Memories and thoughts slipped silently from his mind and dispersed into the air, imperceptibly changing the vast city around him.
For some reason, a sense that something was wrong stirred in his heart, followed by irritation and doubt. He instinctively sent out his Divine Sense, spreading his awareness across the area.
At once, the sights and sounds of the teeming Mortal World rushed in!
The Daoist fell into a brief daze. The warmth and bustle of ordinary life filled his heart, and that faint sense of wrongness vanished like smoke.
By the time Wangsheng Daoist recovered, he understood the city's layout.
"The entire Divine Realm forms a ring around the central Sea Eye, divided into eastern, southern, western, and northern districts. Each district is as large as Chang'an, and Spirit Light shines everywhere. Clearly, it has a great many inhabitants."
As he thought this, an old man smoking a Dry Pipe said to several children nearby, "You were born here, so you ought to know the city inside and out. Our Chen City has a large population, spread across four districts. The eastern district has the most, a full two hundred thousand. Next is the southern district with one hundred and fifty thousand. The West and northern districts have one hundred thousand each!"
Though Wangsheng Daoist came from an island in the Eastern Sea, he had traveled widely in his youth. He had visited not only Southern Jambudvipa but Eastern Jambudvipa and Northern Kuru Continent as well. Even with all he had seen, he could not help being astonished.
"That makes a full five hundred and fifty thousand people in the Divine Realm! Feeding so many each day must take an enormous amount of grain,